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Committee advances wide-ranging recruitment-and-retention package for first responders
Summary
The Public Safety and Security Committee moved HB 5046 — a recruitment-and-retention package for police, firefighters, EMS and corrections — to the floor and added it to the consent calendar. The bill includes tuition waivers, a tax credit for long‑service volunteer firefighters and a task force to study expansion.
The Public Safety and Security Committee on March 17 voted to move HB 5046, a broad recruitment-and-retention bill for first responders, to the floor and added the measure to the committee’s consent calendar.
Committee chairs described the measure as a major, multi-part effort to address staffing shortages in police, fire, emergency medical services and related fields. The bill adds municipal and nonprofit EMS into eligible categories, clarifies tribal service recognition, preserves community-college and state university tuition-waiver provisions…
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